2024
Quantifying constraint in the human mitochondrial genome
Lake N, Ma K, Liu W, Battle S, Laricchia K, Tiao G, Puiu D, Ng K, Cohen J, Compton A, Cowie S, Christodoulou J, Thorburn D, Zhao H, Arking D, Sunyaev S, Lek M. Quantifying constraint in the human mitochondrial genome. Nature 2024, 635: 390-397. PMID: 39415008, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08048-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMitochondrial genomeDeleterious variationMtDNA mutator modelHuman mitochondrial genomeGenome Aggregation DatabaseMtDNA variationMtDNA variantsMitochondrial DNANoncoding regionsMitochondrial proteinsRRNA geneGenetic variationMtDNAThree-dimensional structureMutation modelPathogenic variationDisease relevanceAggregation DatabaseGenomeLarge-scale population datasetRRNAConstrained sitesGenesTRNAPopulation datasets
2022
MitoVisualize: a resource for analysis of variants in human mitochondrial RNAs and DNA
Lake NJ, Zhou L, Xu J, Lek M. MitoVisualize: a resource for analysis of variants in human mitochondrial RNAs and DNA. Bioinformatics 2022, 38: 2967-2969. PMID: 35561159, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac216.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRibosomal RNA secondary structuresHuman mitochondrial RNAMitochondrial transfer RNAsPost-transcriptional modificationsHuman mitochondrial DNADisease-associated variantsRNA secondary structureEffects of variantsMtDNA mapMitochondrial RNAMtDNA variationMitochondrial DNATransfer RNAAnalysis of variantsRNA structureSecondary structureVariant annotationLarge deletionsSupplementary dataVariant interpretationRNADNAVariantsGenesNew tool